As from 19th January 2015, the various sketches below "time out" if they don't enter programming mode after 50 attempts. The code displays a dot for every attempt, so if it fails you will see ...

The ATtiny family is a series of one of the smallest microcontrollers in the AVR market. These microcontrollers are capable of utilizing many of the libraries available on the Arduino platform. The ...

It probably doesn’t matter much for the hacker who sleeps with a bag of various microcontroller flash programmers under the pillow, but for an end-user to apply a firmware upgrade, convenience is king ...

Sure, countless microcontroller development boards featuring a USB connection have made it to the Projects and Tutorials pages of Electroschematics. Although these days it really is easy to build your ...

I have started learning electronics again starting with the fundamentals, and had been looking at creating my own function generator using a 555 timer. At the right time, and more versatile, there was ...